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Potternaught Potternaught
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A podcast about authorship, fandom, messy feelings and critical explorations of the Harry Potter books and franchise. For fans in crisis, critics, and those who have only absorbed the phenomenon through cultural osmosis and are curious enough to dive in (to the good and the bad).
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BONUS EPISODE: This Fandom Is A Monolith
We briefly return from our hiatus with an episode recorded last summer, all about Harry Potter Fandom: the good, the bad, and the ugly. Zoe and Adela reminisce about their first introductions to the books and to the fandom, online and offline. E remembers their view of this monolith of a fanbase from the sidelines, when internet culture in the 00s and 10s was saturated with Harry Potter references, theories, memes, and revelations. Zoe discusses types of fandoms from a scholarly lens and why the Harry Potter fandom was so transformative. For better or worse, HP fans shaped early internet culture. For better or worse, HP fans brought their obsession with the magical world into the real world. Let's talk about that.
Find us on Twitter!
Adela - @aredhel__
Zoe - @zoetopaz
e - @cel10e
The Show: @potternaught (Twitter & Tumblr!)
Theme music by Morgan Jackson: https://wedidthetimewarpagain.bandcamp.com/
LINKS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
Consider the Snape Wife: https://jezebel.com/consider-the-snapewife-1845247730
Parents gaslight child: https://www.distractify.com/p/parents-raise-daughter-witch-harry-potter
A young trans man's response to JKR's terfdom: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/21/opinion/jk-rowling-twitter-trans.html
Ilvermorny, racism & cultural appropriation:
http://nativeappropriations.com/2016/03/magic-in-north-america-part-1-ugh.html
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/160311-history-of-magic-in-north-america-jk-rowling-native-american-stereotypes
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/mar/09/jk-rowling-under-fire-for-appropriating-navajo-tradition-history-of-magic-in-north-america-pottermore
OUR FANDOM REC'S:
Fandom Forward: https://fandomforward.org/impact
A Very Potter Musical: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmwM_AKeMCk
Potter Puppet Pals: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z09rvN3s9Kg
Zoe's fic rec's:
"All Life Is Yours To Miss" https://archiveofourown.org/works/825875
"What We Pretend We Can't See" https://archiveofourown.org/works/9794657
"A Young Radical's Guide To Love" https://archiveofourown.org/works/643932/chapters/1168890
e's art rec: https://floccinaucinihilipilificationa.tumblr.com/tagged/harry-potter
Adela's wizard rock rec's:
"Just A Hufflepuff" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN_5Mko-bSg
"Spells And Scars" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJGD52uYJVE
"Bridge To The Other Side" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DarPU3Rpovs
"End Of An Era" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vDjOv_B4Gk
"Last Call" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1ZzqSZlym4 -
BONUS EPISODE: It's Not A Swing Dress, It's A Watermelon
In which we watch and discuss the film adaptation of Goblet of Fire which, despite all of the negative shoutouts, we all quite enjoyed. Discussions include the much better handling of the Crouch/Moody mystery compared to the book, as well as the two genders: butterflies and staves. We would all also like to acknowledge that we completely forgot to talk about Draco at all, and we apologize.
Links:
Can You Do The Hippogriff: https://youtu.be/BRGAUnFuKj0
Patil twins pronunciation guide: https://www.tiktok.com/@promawhatup/video/6927446505091501318
Find us on Twitter!
Adela - @aredhel__
Zoe - @zoetopaz
e - @cel10e
The Show: @potternaught (Twitter & Tumblr!)
Theme music by Morgan Jackson: https://wedidthetimewarpagain.bandcamp.com/ -
35: I Can't Believe Zoe Is Harry Potter (Book 4 Wrap-Up)
We wrap up Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, answer your questions, talk about how nostalgia and criticism shifts (or doesn't shift!) our rankings of the books, and e makes predictions about the next book!
Find us on Twitter!
Adela - @aredhel__
Zoe - @zoetopaz
e - @cel10e
The Show: @potternaught (Twitter & Tumblr!)
Theme music by Morgan Jackson: https://wedidthetimewarpagain.bandcamp.com/
LINKS USED IN THIS EPISODE:
Lofty Fic Rec links:
The Arithmancer: https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10070079/1/The-Arithmancer
Where No Shadows Fall: https://archiveofourown.org/works/1054082 -
34: A Minor Fudgery Of Space And Time
Due to a technical issue we combined the last four chapters of HP 4! Hear E grumble about the second half of the climax, listen to Zoe get frustrated with Crouch’s Moody, and bask in Adela’s love for Fred and George. The book ends on the series’ first ever sad closing, but both we and Harry will preserve.
Send us your book 4 wrap up questions! Spoilers please send directly to Zoe or Adela or to our Tumblr, and feel free to send us questions about the book 4 movie as well!
Note: Adela had a couple audio issues throughout the episode, apologies!
Find us on Twitter!
Adela - @aredhel__
Zoe - @zoetopaz
E - @cel10e
The Show: @potternaught (Twitter & Tumblr!)
Theme music by Morgan Jackson: https://wedidthetimewarpagain.bandcamp.com/ -
33: Lord Voldemort's Multilevel Marketing Scheme
CW: brief discussion of a dead body 38:40-39:45, brief mention of fetuses in anti-abortion ads 39:45-40:20.
In which we discuss the first half of the climax of Goblet of Fire, including the fridging of Cedric Diggory, an expository villain monologue that lasts five whole pages, and whether Voldy's cult is actually an MLM.
Find us on Twitter!
Adela - @aredhel__
Zoe - @zoetopaz
E - @cel10e
The Show: @potternaught (Twitter & Tumblr!)
Theme music by Morgan Jackson: https://wedidthetimewarpagain.bandcamp.com/ -
32: The Vaguest Of Clues
We talk about possibly the two least helpful chapters in the entire fourth book (The Dream & The Pensieve), and the Neville Protection Squad commences once again.
Follow us on Twitter!
Adela: @aredhel__
Zoe: @zoetopaz
e: @cel10e
The Show: @potternaught (Twitter & Tumblr)
Theme music by Morgan Jackson: https://wedidthetimewarpagain.bandcamp.com
LINKS:
Adela's Kickstarter (ends April 10th): https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adela/wisp-rpg
Customer Reviews
Engaging and Frustrating
Disclaimer: I am a lot farther along with processing and letting go of HP than the 2/3rds of the hosts. I am no longer a fan of anything Harry Potter and I don’t participate in the fandom.
I enjoy literary criticism, and this podcast offers thoughtful and perceptive deconstructions of various aspects of Harry Potter. E, as a first time reader, is especially clear-eyed and astute. I love their takes and perspective. They are what keeps me listening.
The other two hosts …. frustrate me. The show has made an editorial decision to avoid praising the author, which I appreciate, but as a result it’s often impossible to tell how or why Zoe or Adela like anything about the books. AT BEST their continuing fandom is incoherent, at worst, it often reads as an unstated defense of the trans misogyny, racism, etc. of the HP universe. Or like their beliefs against these things aren’t real, if they can identify and deconstruct them all and then enthusiastically adore something like book four?!?? it can be a bit triggering and tbh often leads me to set aside the pod, but the incisive e brings me back.
Nostalgia is a heck of a drug, I guess, but I wish the fan hosts could be more…honest? direct? about their feelings for this property. If they continue with book five, I would like zoe and adela to grapple more with how or why they continue to feel anything for the books, characters, and fandom.